"But see the fading many-colored woods, Shade deepening over shade, the country round
Imbrown; a crowded umbrage, dusk and dun, Of every hue, from wan declining green to sooty dark;" and in the line in which he speaks of
Its banks were seven or eight feet high, and densely covered with white and black spruce,--which, I think, must be the commonest trees thereabouts,--fir, arbor-vitae, canoe, yellow, and black birch, rock, mountain, and a few red maples, beech, black and mountain ash, the large-toothed aspen, many civil looking elms, now
imbrowned, along the stream, and at first a few hemlocks also.